Authors starting with R from B & L Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

Original stiff printed wrappers; first half uncut, with gray-blue stained edges. First edition of this collection of poems based on psychiatric concepts and problems experienced by some of the author’s patients. Titles include Hallucination; Eclipse of the Ego; and Psychosomatic hurt. Rademacher (b.1899 ) ran a thriving psychiatry practice, and was an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene at Yale University.... more information

Blue cloth with paper spine label titled in black, top edge gilt. Small damp-stain in fore-edge margin mainly affecting last 20 pages, boards rubbed and soiled, very good. Limited edition, unnumbered and marked as 'editor's copy' and inscribed by him on the limitation page. ... more information

Original printed wrappers, very brittle, back wrapper detached and front wrapper nearly detached. First edition. Rafinesque here offers his own interpretation of the Old Testament, and urges a new translation in English. Though his primary interests were in the fields of botany and ichthyology, he did publish works in a wide variety of topics, including theology, economics, and archaeology. Rafinesque (1783-1840) was professor of natural history, practical and medical botany, member of twelve learned societ... more information

With 7 text illustrations. Original printed wrappers with little wear and some stains around edges. Small stamp and inscription on front wrapper. Original author's offprint. This rare paper describes Cajal's investigation of the retina and the sympathetic nervous system of mammals. It contains an important segment of his extensive study on nervous system structure.Cajal (1852-1934) shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology with Camillo Golgi in 1906 for their work on the structure... more information

With 4 plates and 276 text illustrations, many in colour. Modern half cloth over marbled boards; an excellent set with the signature of T. Ziehen on the first blank leaf. First edition. This most valuable journal was created by Ramon y Cajal in order to publish his own scientific research and to serve to encourage his pupils. It is extremely rare with only sixty copies printed. As initially conceived by Cajal, the Revista trimestral micrográfica was published for five years as a quarterly review of n... more information

With half title and 99 text illustrations, many in colour; lightly toned throughout and brittle as usual, due to poor paper quality. Contemporary vellum, generally a very good copy with a contemporary but illegible signature and annotations. Second edition, corrected and largely augmented with new material, principally in the areas of bacteriology, toxins and anti-toxins, and immunization. Ramón y Cajal here details new techniques which have arisen since publication of the first edition in 1890, such... more information

With hundreds of text illustrations (a few in colour) from the author’s drawings. Contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards; very minor interior browning, otherwise a very nice copy. First edition. One of the greatest works in the neurosciences, printed by subscription in an edition of only 800 copies. It is here that Cajal laid the cytological and histological foundations of modern neurology. His investigations confirmed the neuron doctrine first proposed by His and Forel, that dendrites receive impu... more information

Frontispiece portrait of Stephen Hales plus 7 additional portraits. Original cloth, spine somewhat faded; from the Norman library with his bookplate; another bookplate on front paste-down presumably removed. First edition. Ramsay wrote this popular history at the request of "persons without any special scientific training." He details the discovery of what he deems the "better known constituents of the atmosphere," concluding with his own discovery of argon in 1895. Later editions of t... more information

Engraved frontispiece portrait of the Duke of Venice plus 3 additional engraved plates (2 folding), 3 woodcut text figures, woodcut headpiece and initials. Contemporary calf, rebacked; an excellent copy from the library of Kimbolton Castle, with its bookplate. Contemporary annotations. First edition. Having made the rounds of England and Wales with his buddy Francis Willughby, Ray decided to extend his observations in botany and natural history with a trek to the Continent. It was a boys' outing: along... more information

Contemporary calf, covers somewhat worn; blank leaves starting, text in fine condition. From the Gloddaeth Library of Wales. Second edition of one of the most influential books in English scientific literature. This edition was greatly enlarged with new thoughts and observations, so much so that Ray apologizes to the purchaser of the first edition for rendering their copies worthless. According to Keynes , “the book is characterised by Canon Raven’s John Ray as follows: ‘It formed the basis o... more information

Text figures. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy. ... more information

List provided upon request. The Royal Institution of Great Britain was founded in 1799 and has had a long and fruitful role both in scientific research and scientific communications. Some of the scientists from the Royal Institution include Humphrey Davy and Michael Faraday in the first half of the nineteenth century, through to the earliest of the fifteen Nobel laureates at the Institution: J.W. Strutt, J.J. Thomson, Rutherford, W.H. and W.L. Bragg, and H.H. Dale in the first half of this century. In 182... more information

Each volume with engraved frontispiece, titles in orange and black. Half-calf over marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments, black and red labels (a few of the title labels faded). An excellent set from the library of Louis E. Goodman, with his bookplate. Reade (1814-84) was an English novelist and dramatist. Included in this complete edition of his works is It's Never Too Late to Mend, written with the purpose of reforming abuses in prison discipline and the treatment of criminals. He is best know... more information

With 2 folding lithograph plates. Original printed blue wrappers, with publisher's advertisements on lower and inner covers; some light fraying to extremities and spine due to paper quality, otherwise an excellent copy, mostly uncut. First edition of this work on congenital defects of the spine. Recklinghausen's "most notable contribution to child neurology" traces its development from the early formation of the neuroaxis to the full fetus, with two large engravings illustrating the intern... more information

Very little text, mostly illustrations. ... more information

Photographic frontispiece of S. Weir Mitchell. Publisher's decorated cloth; other than the front hinge starting to loosen, interior very good. Ownership signature of C.B. Craig on the paste-down. First edition. A book that every doctor and medical student should read! Includes some wonderful stories and anecdotes. Chapters include "humors of the profession," "the ignorant patient," "peculiar cases," and "hospital anecdotes," among others. Truly a classic.... more information

Original printed wrappers, both detached. Presentation of Sam. Dickson on top wrapper. First edition. Reed, a frequent critic of Republican administration during the War, suggests that Seward mishandled his office of foreign affairs, including communication with European allies of the North, possibly for his own benefit. Sabin, 68622.... more information

With numerous text illustrations. Original half-cloth and marbled boards, some wear on edges, spine repaired. A very clean copy. An extensive and very popular work which demonstrates various types of massage. Reibmayer carefully describes technique, which muscles are affected, and the apparatus which should be used. The book includes a fascinating section on the massage and examination of the uterus of pregnant and non-pregnant women.... more information

Text diagrams. Original cloth. First edition. Reichenbach (1891-1953), German philosopher and educator, here develops new applications in non-Euclidean geometry, gravitational theory and investigation of space and time. ... more information

Original printed wrapper torn, interior uncut and unopened. First edition. This is the second of Reik's work on the psychology of religion, and the psychoanalytic problems that give rise to the social and moral effects arising from religion.... more information